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: I I- I. Ia Ib Ic Id Ie If Ig Ih Ii Ij Ik Il Im In Io Ip Iq Ir Is It Iu Iv Iw Ix Iy Iz
iliolumbar vein | ilion | iliopsoas | ilium | ilixanthin | ilk | ilke | ilkon | ilkoon | ill | ill at ease

ilk

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Noun

CIDE DICTIONARY

ilka. [Scot. ilk, OE. ilke the same, AS. ilca. Cf. Each.].
     Same; each; every.  Spenser.  [1913 Webster]
Of that ilk, (a) denoting that a person's surname and the title of his estate are the same; as, Grant of that ilk, i.e., Grant of Grant. [Scottish] Jamieson. (a) Of the same kind.
ilkn. 
     Kind; class; sort; type; as, him and his ilk; -- sometimes used to indicate disapproval when applied to people.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

ilk, n.
1 colloq. disp. a family, class, or set (not of the same ilk as you).

Usage
Usu. derog. and therefore best avoided.
2 (in of that ilk) Sc. of the same (name) (Guthrie of that ilk = of Guthrie).
Etymology
OE ilca same

THESAURUS

ilk

blood, body-build, brand, breed, cast, character, characteristic, characteristics, clan, color, complexion, composition, constituents, constitution, crasis, denomination, description, designation, dharma, diathesis, disposition, ethos, feather, fiber, form, frame, genius, genre, genus, grain, habit, hue, humor, humors, kidney, kin, kind, label, line, lot, make, makeup, manner, mark, mold, nature, number, persuasion, phylum, physique, property, quality, race, shape, somatotype, sort, species, spirit, stamp, strain, streak, stripe, style, suchness, system, temper, temperament, tendency, tenor, the like of, the likes of, tone, tribe, type, variety, vein, way

ROGET THESAURUS

ilk

Identity

N identity, sameness, coincidence, coalescence, convertibility, equality, selfness, self, oneself, identification, monotony, tautology, facsimile, homoousia: alter ego, ipsissima verba, same, self, very, one and the same, very thing, actual thing, real McCoy, no other, one and only, in the flesh, identical, self, ilk, the same, selfsame, one and the same, homoousian, coincide, coalescent, coalescing, indistinguishable, one, equivalent, tweedle dee and tweedle dum, much the same, of a muchness, unaltered, identically, on all fours.


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